MFL
French Key Stage 3 scheme of work
Year 7 - Mission: Franҫais 1
Autumn term
Content
Greetings and personal information
Family
French-speaking countries
Numbers
Places in the town
Where I live
Time – 12 and 24 hour clock
School – subjects and opinions
Why it’s important to learn a language
Grammar
Adjectives and agreements
Basic negatives
Intensifiers
Masculine and feminine nouns
-er verbs – 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular
Forming questions
Spring term
Content
Daily routine
Free time
Sports and hobbies
Going out with friends
Months and dates
Eating out – choosing from a menu
Describing places
Grammar
Reflexive verbs
Plural verbs
Common irregular verbs
Time phrases
Au, à la, aux
Aller + the infinitive
Summer term
Content
Saying you are hungry, thirsty, tired etc
Weather
Holiday activities
Music and playing an instrument
Clothes and colours
Body parts
Grammar
The imperative
Irregular plurals
Jouer au / du
Irregular adjectives
The perfect tense
Year 8 - Mission: Franҫais 2
Autumn term
Content
Going back to school
Summer holiday activities
Voting for a class rep
Using the Internet
Arranging to meet
Ordinal numbers
School buildings
Food and drink
World cuisine
Following a recipe
Grammar
Je veux + infinitive
Expressing opinions
The imperative
Modal verbs
Du, de la, des
Expressing preferences
Connectives
Il faut
Spring term
Content
Physical appearance
Weather in different countries
Extreme weather
Comparing town and country living
Comparing life now with the past
Grammar
The imperfect tense
Disjunctive pronouns
Negative reflexive verbs
Comparatives and superlatives
The perfect tense
Summer term
Content
Sports
Dates
Talking about major sporting events
Describing items in a museum
French literature and cinema
Grammar
Comparing perfect and imperfect tenses
The future tense
Extended opinions and descriptions
Direct and indirect object pronouns
Year 9 - Mission: Franҫais 3
Autumn term
Content
Different ways of being intelligent
Why you should learn a language
Being healthy
Teenage issues
Grammar
Present tense of irregular verbs
Modal verbs
Comparative adjectives
Time expressions
Spring term
Content
Some French historical facts
Bastille Day
Sequences of events
Past routines
Talking about our past
Events of May 1968 in France
Global issues and concerns
The world of tomorrow
Recycling
Grammar
Dates
Asking questions
Perfect tense – 3rd person
Perfect tense with être
The imperfect tense
Negatives
The future tense
The present participle
Summer term
Content
Volunteering and charity work
Pros and cons of robots
Personal choices
Pocket money
Future employment
New technologies
Discussing film and book characters
Grammar
Impersonal expressions
Indefinite pronouns
Expressions of frequency
The conditional tense
Relative pronouns
The passive voice